Event Description 

This event launched the Center for the Study of World Religion’s new “Psychedelics & Ethics” initiative, which brings together interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to explore ethical questions surrounding psychedelics. The series seeks to create a forum for constructive conversations about the role of psychedelics in society, with an eye toward justice and care. For our opening event, hosted by the CSWR and the Petrie Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, we asked: How can legal, philosophical, and religious ethical approaches inform psychedelic studies and promote safer psychedelic use? To answer this and related questions, we were joined by experts Dr. Mason Marks, Dr. Christine Hauskeller, and Dr. Roman Palitsky, who respectively represented legal, philosophical, and religious approaches to psychedelic ethics. 

Panelists  

• Mason Marks, MD, JD, Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Senior Fellow and Project Lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center; Affiliated Fellow, Information Society Project (ISP), Yale Law School
• Christine Hauskeller, MA, PhD, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Psychedelics Research Group, University of Exeter 
• Roman Palitsky, PhD, MDiv, Emory Spiritual Health, Emory University School of Medicine

This event is co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School.